Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-09

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child. ] tried to explain to him that
his little boy was not very kind to his
sister, but I could never make him nm.
derstand that. I forget now what was
the Indian name of the girl, but trans
lated it meant: The-grl-that-washes.
This was name which was very badly
assorted to this young person, for only
when it rained was my little Indian girl
ever washed.
A certain use made of dolls In old
times is worth mentioning. Although
fashion plates are Of much greater an
tiquity than is generally supposed, how
dresses were cut and trimmed was once
shown to ladies in all parts of Europe
by means of dolls. A queen of France,
Marie de Medicis, who was of italian
origin, always had lot of dolls dressed
up by the great mantau-makers and
milliners of those days. If the Queen
wanted to know what were the latest
Spanish or italian fashions these dolls
were dressed up in Madrid, or Flor
ence, or Naples, and forwarded to her.
After she had looked at them, provid-
ing another queen was in favor, she
would send on the dressed-up doll to
the other majesty through the French
ambassador, and so all the great peo-
pie at court knew exactly what was the
fashion, for in those days, just like
ours, not to be in the fashion was q
very dreadful thing, indeed.
Some years ago all our dolls heads
were made in Germany or France, and
many china ones come from there to-
day, but we make at home, now, an in
destructible head out of paper and
glue, which will stand any amount of
pounding.
A few years ago an exhibition of dolls
belonging to the old time was held in
Paris. Some of the dolls were made
and dressed by the people who worked
at them in the sixteenth century. They
were very curious because they illus
trated the way people dressed some
two or three centuries ago. If we only
could have brought back the boys and
girls who had played with them.
In Philadelphia, at the State-house.
. doll of the middle of the last century
has been preserved, and it's dress is in
good condition. The lady still wears a
gown with very long waist, pulled
out petticoats, and has queer head
dress, and is the type of the person of
quality of those days. On her face,
which has funny shipper, are two or
three little bits of court plaster, for in
those times it was thought very becom-
ing for ladies to paste little patches of
black taffeta on their cheeks.
The worst wrecked doll I ever saw
was on railroad, and my heart was in
my mouth about it. It was just near
dusk, and I was travelling on an excur-
sion train in New Jersey, when I saw q
little girl suddenly run across the track
and give loud scream. Fortunately,
we were slowing up. Some bad boys,
just as mean as tie Indian boy, had
taken the little girls doll and put it
across the railroad track. As I was
riding on the engine I saw these bad
boys run cf across the fields. I must
declare that the engineer was very mad.
You never saw such smashed doll.
There was nothing left but little pile
Of bran. We stopped fifteen minutes
at the station for refreshments. Some
ladies heard of the little girls misfor-
tune, and they made up q purse, and
one nice little lady, the daughter of
one of the passengers, had just time to
run to a shop in the village and buy
another doll for the little girl, when off
we started again.-Brooklyas Union.